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Poverty and Racism
Title: Poverty and Racism
Category: History
Details: Words: 1658 | Pages: 7.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Poverty and Racism
McCullers addresses poverty and racism of the 1930s South and also of the social and economic crisis that encompassed it during that time. The setting took place in a Southern town whose main economy came from cotton and saw mills and the time was during the Great Depression. Coming out in the 1940s, this novel reflected on the intolerance, poverty and isolation of the South. The characters all addressed at least one aspect of the …showed first 75 words of 1658 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1658 total…family needs help in supporting itself, she takes it upon herself to get a job. She sacrifices her dreams in order to face society’s demands and loses her hope of becoming a composer, although she still has some hope in that she says that she will buy a piano.
In one sentence, McCullers statement of the human condition is the longing for love, support, understanding and the fulfilling of one’s heart’s desires.
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